If anyone in power told me to tatoo anything onto my arm/head in order to buy goods...

I'll go down to my nearest Church and repent my sins .

A company Mastercard owns is developing a chip that contains all of your bank account info, credit card, etc. It'd be like electronic money. By human testing, they have found it only works on your right hand or forehead. Coincidence? Someone could easily put an ink mark of a name where it is located to find it for the scanner, and the mark could be the name of the world leader, the antichrist.

Well of course they didnt, nobody does when they're setting the stuff into motion. But what they're making very easily fits in to revelations, someone could just say, we dont take currency anymore, just the chip because that way there's no fraud, or something, and the population would generally follow IMO.

I do not believe the-world-is-ending theory; however, I believe that we will have to evolve to a greater degree like we always have been in the past. Although, it may mean we would have to suffer again for something greater than we have now. Please do not misunderstand sufferings as a pointless thing to experience. Sometimes, sufferings are what we need to recognize what we did wrong and move on. WW2 didn't mean the world would end. I doubt that anything would put us, the humans, and the earth in jeopory (however you spell that). I believe that we will experience a great evolution soon and it's better to view that way than panicking, "The world is going to end!!!" Maybe this era will be called an oil age. Maybe in the future, people will think we are stupid and primitive like we do with WW2, civil war in USA, etc. Most of all, maybe they will think we're stupid that we even think the world will end soon.

I don't know about you, but I personally prefer the-greater-evolution theory. It's more beautiful that way and would make more sense with reincaration beliefs. Don't you concur?

Apocalyptic belief systems tend to arise in a society that feels itself to be in a time of crisis. The Jewish nation under Roman occupation, feeling the cultural pressure from their ruling class who were in with the Romans, produced messianic candidates like Jesus (Joshua ben Pantera) and Shimon bar Kochba. The feeling that the cultural 'world' of a society is ending, translates into a prediction of a cosmological end. Maybe the end of the European industrial-capitalist empire is coming. What a relief! Hopefully the empire will collapse before it has succeeded in destroying every remaining culture that lives outside of its grasp. Only historical myopia makes us think that our empire is so unique, just like the Celestial Empire of China or Hitler's Thousand Year Reich thought themselves. I believe that my lifetime will see at least the beginning of the end of industrial society. In fact, the beginning of the end has already started with the breakdown of the liberal facade and the re-appearance of naked imperial aggression in the US, and here in the UK with the rapid degradation of language and culture, respectability of liberal racism, and aggressive conservatism of political discourse.

It's all too easy to see this as a sign of a great spiritualisation of matter if you are not at the sharp end. I'm not sure if, for example, the West Papuan highlanders whose economically self-sufficient and nature-friendly society is currently being destroyed by the murderous aggression of the Indonesian state, who want them out of the way for logging and mining operations, would see it in such a positive light. Would you be happy for you and your family to be murdered as part of this great spiritualisation, if you were unlucky enough to be outside or on the fringes of the empire, and in a place with exploitable resources? Maybe the idea of the Age of Aquarius after the dissolution of the material planet soothes the consciences of people in the capitalist world who depend on colonial aggression and murder to keep our supplies of cheap minerals, wood, coffee, tobacco, cattle feed, etc rolling in? Ah well, all part of Bod's great plan, never mind a few dead primitives? The logic is obvious: the faster we destroy the planet and the few remaining humans who know how to live on it, the sooner we get to heaven. Hallelujah! Consume! Consume!